Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban PC KCwas an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. He served both as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. After his death, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosophical advocate and practitioner of the scientific method during the scientific revolution...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth21 January 1561
art father wish
Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish to paint.
library shrines saint
Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.
believe men being-true
For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
christian religious law
There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
christian book mind
The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages
men doubt wit
When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.
atheist real hypocrite
Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.
men serpent
Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.
men scary body
Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
air healthy thyme
Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.
writing sparks faces
A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
marriage men seven-years
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
marriage spouse enterprise
Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.
beautiful love-is tree
My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.